Motor-car body



E. P. JQNES MOTOR GARI BODY NGV 5, i929.

lFiled Dec. 25 1926 www@ meer Nev. s. ieee EDWARD PETER JGNES,

MOTUB-CAR BODY application ined December 23, 192e, serial No. 156,736,and in creat Britain mvember 5 192e.

This invention relates to bodies for motor l cars and is designed toprovide a body which will give greater opportunities for observation,greater freedom from anxietiesarising from road traffic and greatersafety from the perils of the road to the occupants of the rear seat,and will provide better facilities for the conveyance of luggage,parcels and the like.

In t-he construction of car bodies it is com- '1o mon practice to placethe rear seats some distance behind the front seats but facing in aforward direction with a space between and to dispose entrance doors to`the rear seats at one or both sides of the body.

According to this invention the position of the rear seat is reversedwith theback of the seat adjacent to vthe back of the front seat, anentrance door is placed at the rear of the body, and a compartment forluggage is lprovided between the front and back seat with a small doorat one or both sides to give access to the compartment. v i

In the open or touring car the .rear of the body is preferably inclinedand the back entrance is provided with twin doors opening, preferablysimultaneously, to right and left to give easy access to the rear seats.A hood is mounted to cover both front and rear-seats formed of aspringroller blind carried by two arms, lying when not in use betweenthe Y two seats, but when required swung up to the rear when the rollerblind is drawn forward; and attached to the front and rear screens andan intermediate support, in such a. way' that the'sides are turneddownwards and form van arched roof over the passengers, or the hood mayfold both from the front and rear towards the centre of theA body, andwhen folded lie'between the two seats.

40 The invention will be fully described with reference to theaccompanying drawings.

I 5 car showing another form of hoo vmounted on two arms H1.

The front seat A and front -part of the body with doors a and windscreen a1 are of ordinary construction. l

The re seat B is reversed to face towards the rear Sotbe body with theback b of the seat tow rds the driver and adjacent to the back of thefront seat A. The body is carried rearwards round the seat. Between theseats a compartment E is formed adapted to carry luggage, tools,parcels, dogs or the-like and the body is provided with a door e at oneor both sides to give access thereto. Twin doors D1, D2 are fitted atthe back opening to right and left to give easy access, said doorsextending partially over the compartment. The body is ttedwith a hood Hextending forward over the front seat A and over the rear seat B formedof a spring roller blind W'hen the hood H is not in use it lies betweenthe two seats the arms H1 being swung forward to the position h. Whenthe hood is required the arms are swung back to position L, the rollerblind being then drawn forward and 'attached to the front screen a1, theintermediate support H2 and the rear screen b1 in such a way that thesides are turned down and form an arched hood over the passengers. Therear screen is designed to partially enclose the compartment, beingpreferably formed of walls of transparent material, the rear wallextending across the back of the compartment and sloping over the same,the sides of the screen ex tending along the side walls of thecompartment and formed so as tojoin with the sloped` rear wall.Alternatively the body is fitted (Fig. 4) with a double hood G extendingforward over the`front seat A and backward over the rear seat B mountedon arms g, g1

and is arranged to fo1d`backwards-and forwards towards the centrebetween the two seats, so that when out vof usel it lies folded betweenthe two seats. Side curtains or screens of transparent material may befitted as desired, and a transverse wind screen b1- -to protect theoccupants of the seat B. A

transparent curtain may be suspended at the rear of the hood if desired.

The arrangement of the seating` makes for the best possible use of thedisposable space in the body. s side entrances for the rear, seatscannot' be arran d the door is at the back, and this allows t e body tobe widened out to the full width of the wings, and 1n i* this way bothback and front seats are made wide enough for three persons.

The length f thechassis also allows space I enough for a locker orcompartment extending across the body, between the back and 'frontseats, with door on both sides, where luggage or parcels are easilystowed immuneV from amp and dirt--impossible on any other form of body.This compartment nis large enough for six ood sized suitcases, and theweight is carrie where it should below down and between the axles.

.What I claim as my invention and desire to protect is 1f As anewarticle of manufacture, a motor car'comprising a body o f the open typeprovided with a protected observation compartment in the rear thereof,an' observation seat for said compartment adapted to face therearandsubstantially abut the conventionaltl front seat of the car, a rigidscreen sloping over the observation compartment adapted to extend acrossthe back and around the sides of the observation seat and partiallyenclose the compartment, a centrally collapsible top adapted to extendover the observationncom# partment and the front seat of the bodydesigned to fit between the observation com partment and the front. seatin collapsed position, and a pair of doors extending forwardly andupwardly over the compartment to protect the occupantsV and provide anentrance for :the com artment. V

2.. The device as c aimed in claim 1, and in which the rigid screenconsists of a shield of transparent material partially enclosing theobservation compartment; without obstruct- 1n the view. v

n testimony whereofA have hereunto set my hand.

E. P ETER J QNES.

